New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-26
THE SITUATION IN IRELAND.
TAKING UP ARMS TO DEFEND THEIR HOMES.
GOVERNMENT SENDING FORCES TO AID EViCiioN
AND THE PEOPLE PREPARING TO RECEIVE
THEM-REFUsING TO PAY THE COUNTY
CEss-A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS.

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CEss-A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS.
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LONDON, July 25-Ihe break down OF une rnp
Of Campaign prosecution Is great Na,ion"'O
victory The prosecution has failed in spite Of the
omen efforts of the Crown to pack jury ana III
spite of the bold defence Of the same jury pacfis
which the Government ventured TO mako III ',o
House Of Commons. This is proof that the pun
lie opnion aroused by the debates on The jury
.o,,in, in par,iament has begun to work IN
IRELAND and I think the breakdown may oo
ta,,on nc tbc death knell of the Jury-paci1ng
system. The Government, however, VIII seek W
turn it to advantage. They will pretend IL Is u
nroof that the ordinary law has broken down IN
ireland and that consequently 1t must be strenSth-
ened hy coercion for to this the Government are
now hopclcssly committed. They have embarked
upon q tOlicy whose first phase Will be TO eXas-
perate Leand and plunge her into state OF
disorder which they will allege as an excuse for
coercion. They will then ask the House OF Com
mons for n Coercion act. Meantime they are
passing the new rules Of procedure III order tnaC
when the time for asking for coercion arrives
discussion may be choked off,
Events in Ireland show that troublesome
time is ahead of us. The Government h,Nc
shown bv the dispatch Of troops and police that
they will give the reactionaiy landlords every
help IN carrying out csfctions. sort of eviction
campaicn headquarters hasr been established at
JouQhrea Galway County, and q gunboat mas
bcen sent round to Dnglc in County Kerry Win
troors and supplies to cooperate with the Crow
bar brigade in the wholesale extermination Lord
Cork threatens On his property in Bodyke' county
Clare all Of which points are on the Allahtic
coast nv
There is. fear, likely to be bloody work. The
reople have armed themselves with pixies ana
enidcr rifles of which they became possessed two
al tba, hava hnrrica0cd their houses.
thrown obstacles across the roads, broken down
the BRIDES and are, in fact, in every way pre-
parnr for q defence of their homes against inc
large force that is being concentrated In inc
locality Tenants elsewhere arc also preparing
for resistance, though nowhere on 50 extensive
o scale at Bodykc
The forced retirement of Sir Thomas EdmOnde.
NJ. p, from the Shricvalty of County waterford
hccause he attended a Nationalist demonstration
,vl, proyp one of the many fertile causes OF
t,ouble outside the actual land question: sir
Thomas who has already appointed suD-shenu
who is not an Orangcman, IS resolved TO coi'es'
the LEGAL merits of the action of the Government
in appointing a successor who has made an attempt
to summon different panel This VIII give
great confusion at the coming assizcs Tor uhe
county Besi G this the Nationalist fabe-payers
Of the County Waterford are hkoly TO reslst pay
ment Of the county "ccss7 which viii be Imposed
Inv the new Grand Jury, and l would warn you
not IN he s,,rprised in case the Government should
pers,st in their policy Of harIying the country
a refusal to pay county cess" becomes as
general during the coming spring as resistance 10
fhe ship money tax was in the days OF John
llampden
The contest between the ratc,payers of New Ross
md the officials appointed by the Government to
surerceie the elected poor law guardians grows
daily more acute Tie iate-paSer ers. acting upon
A. MI rln of
renrescntation will pay no rates levied
bv apy but their elected representatives, and as
these rc, rcsentative have been suspended by the
Covcrnmept for granting a better class of food TO
the families of evicted tenants, the rates continue
to be unpaid and the Government are getting
heavily into debt.
Ty,o report of the Land Commission is likely to
,avs sensational effect upon the crisis, for it not
or,v admits to the full the gravity of the agr-
cultural depression caused by reduction oi priccS
hut il also recommends Mr.. Parnell's plan Tor a
revision Of rents every five years ana lhe aa-
mission of the leaseholder TO The dement's ol .hc
land act. In the face Of this report how the
Government is going to defend its wholesale evic-
t;ops its suppressicn Of tenants meetings ana us
nrosecutons of Irish leaders for helping the tenants
Il is impossble to conceive. l believe that thc
rmort when u is thoroughly discussed, VIII nave
tremendous effect in England. One hopc1ui
SIGN of the whole situation is that day by day
oninon in Great Britain is turning strongly on our
side. A conspicuous proof Of this is the recent
election at Burnley, where Home Ruler was
slected nv n majority Of about five hundred TO
seat for which Liberal UniOnist was returned
Mt the last general election. 7. L. Gill, NJ p.